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Mother Teresa's spiritual darkness

If you needed another reminder to never assume, yet another reason to recognize that none of us knows what happens behind someone else's closed doors, here comes "Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light." The book, "consisting primarily of correspondence between Teresa and her confessors and superiors over a period of 66 years, provides the spiritual counterpoint to a life known mostly through its works," Time reports.

Indeed, David Van Biema writes, the more success Mother Teresa had, the worse she felt. As she wrote Archbishop Ferdinand Perier in March 1953: "Please pray specially for me that I may not spoil His work and that Our Lord may show Himself -- for there is such terrible darkness within me, as if everything was dead. It has been like this more or less from the time I started 'the work.'"